Thread: Free honing anyone?

Hey Guys,

I have been shaving and honing with my growing collection of straights now for about 8 months. I know most of the experienced guys have been doing it for years but I seem to have gotten the hang of it pretty well now and can make all my razors shave ready. What I am wondering at this stage is, what would someone else think??

I know that over here in Ireland there is basically no one to hone razors and I would love to offer the service especially as straight razor shaving becomes more popular, but obviously I would want to be confident in my abilities before putting myself out there. So I wonder if anyone would care to have a razor honed for free? Maybe one you are not too attached to in case you are nervous lol

I got my best razor sharpened by Ralfy over at Coticule.be and I must say that it is really cool of them to offer the free honing once for each new member and he did a great job too. But I did not notice any major improvement over what I have achieved myself up to now so I guess I must be doing something right!

Anyway, if anyone would care to test drive my honing skills and provide me with any feedback it would be much appreciated, and hopefully you will get a razor that you are satisfied with, if not, then I will have learned something

Cheers

Daniel

A nice offer.
How about you hone "3" of your razors of different grinds & manufacturers & send them to one of the members here that have a honing service. Let them evaluate your razors, I think the feedback can be more beneficial to your goal.

Yeah I guess that's another way to do it! The different grinds part will be kinda hard though as most are hollow ground but one of them has a smiling edge alright. One with a different grind would be a quarter hollow sheffield. I don't have any wedges, have not found a nice one yet I will try that though thanks for the idea, it's definitely a good way to go about it!

Originally Posted by Kefka

Yeah I guess that's another way to do it! The different grinds part will be kinda hard though as most are hollow ground but one of them has a smiling edge alright. One with a different grind would be a quarter hollow sheffield. I don't have any wedges, have not found a nice one yet I will try that though thanks for the idea, it's definitely a good way to go about it!

Not to rain on your parade, but in order to offer honing services you must be able to hone wedges, and they are a totally different animal.

I had a feeling someone might say that haha! I guess I just need to go get myself a wedge then and see what kind of a fight it puts up eh?

Originally Posted by Kefka

I had a feeling someone might say that haha! I guess I just need to go get myself a wedge then and see what kind of a fight it puts up eh?

Yes definately, one with a good smile and hone wear.

+1 for Hirlau idea or you can do a members search by country, an offer your service to maybe somebody local.
Link to members search engine:http://straightrazorpalace.com/memberlist.php?do=search

Thanks Martin that's also quite a good idea! I do see a couple of lads in Ireland who seem to be somewhat active so that's cool